“Sai Baba is
no more with us physically. He breathed his last at
7:40am and died due to cardio-respiratory failure.”

The
self-described fullest incarnation of God ever to
visit the earth has been clearly documented as
saying that he would live until circa 2022, aged
96. But 85 years of age cannot, by any miracle, be
said to be 96. And well-documented promises that he
would rule the world before leaving it, and avert
the worst calamity mankind has ever faced, and would
usher in a long ‘Golden Age of Sai’, have clearly
not even begun to look at all likely. Sai Baba was
perhaps the most wealthy and politically powerful in
India’s long history. As of today, the world shall
have just have to battle things out without him.

I was a
faith-smitten devotee of 25 years, and a lecturer in
his Whitefield (via Bangalore, South India) –
1978-9), teaching the 3 years of the degree course,
a source of greatly happy memories. I have him to
thank for that, and for his protection of my
innovations. and some other kindness which I shall
always treasure as I do my own breath.

But October
1999 marked the beginning of my intense and
far-reaching investigation of profoundly disturbing
accounts from around the world. Until then, I
thought he would usher in a spiritual and social
revolution, the like of which the world had never
seen ...

.... Let anyone in countries round the
world stop any passer-by and ask whether they have
heard of Sathya Sai Baba, and they will, frequently,
get blank looks for answers. On the other hand, ask
people if they know of Martin Luther King or Nelson
Mandela or Prince William and his wife-to-be Kate
Middleton, and one will fare a great deal better.